This inscription records a gift of 150
panam by a certain Tirunavudaiyar of Ambalattadinallur alias
Manappaidaividu in Kilkalak-kurram to provide for food and other
offerings to the images of the god, goddess, and Ilaiya-nayanar(i.e.,
Subrahmanya ?) set up him in the name of Sundarapandya Kandiyadevar in
the temple of the god Munrukaiyisvaramudaiyanayanar of the place. It is
stated that the money was received by the Sivabrahmanas of the 30
circles attached to the temple, who had agreed to carry out the object
of the endowment.

No. 492

(Page No 328)

(A. R. No. 468 of
1909)

Alvar-Tirunagari,
Tiruchendur Taluk, Tirunelveli District Same wall

Maravarman alias
Tribh. Sundarapandyadeva II: Year 15 = 1252-53 A.D.

This inscription records that a certain
Araiyan Viratamudichchan alias Pallavarayar of Chakkarapaninallur in
Sevvirukkai-nadu, caused the construction of this mandapa and the
setting up of an image of Sri-Varaha-nayanar.

The reference to the mandapa as “this”
suggests, this inscription was originally a mandapa and that it was
transferred to its present position during some repairs.

No. 493

(Page No 328)

(A. R. No. 468 of
1909)

Alvar-Tirunagari,
Tiruchendur Taluk, Tirunelveli District Same wall

Maravarman alias
Tribh. Sundarapandyadeva: Year 11,

day 454=1248-49 A.D.

This inscription contains the prasasti of
the king commencing with Pumalartiruvum, etc., and mentions the queen
Ulagamulududaiyal. It also states that the king was seated on the couch
called Malavarayan in the bed-room in the palace at Madakkulakkil
Madurai.

It states that a certain Araiyan Puvan
alias Venavudaiyan instituted a worship called Tirunadudaiyan-sandhi
after Araiyan Tirunadudaiyan alias Nilagangaraiyan of Kilaikkodumalur
alias Madurodayanallur in Vadatalaichchembi-nadu, to the god Paramasvami
of the temple of Polinjuninrarulina Paramasvamigal of Tirukkurugur in
Tiruvaludi-valanadu, besides instituting a 15-day festival in the month
of Chittirai to celebrate the Uttirattadi which was his birth asterism.
In order to provide for offerings at these functions, land 4-1/2 veli in
extent, in Perungulam alias Uttamadananallur, was given as devadana by
this Venavudaiyar to the temple of god Paramasvamigal and that as per
the request of Ayyan Malavarayan, the king made it a karanmai miyatchi
devadana from the 11 + 1st year of his reign. It is stated that
Venavudaiyan had given half a veli of land in Perungulam as danmadana to
a certain Tiruvellaraininra Vadippiran Vanduvaraiperumal alias
Sundarapandya Brahmadhirayan.

The signatories were Uyaninradu Vanavar
Somadevan alias Tirunilattaiyan of Tadankanni Sirrur in Tirumallinadu
and Araiyan Viratmudittan alias Pallavarayan of Chakkarapaninallur in
Sevirukkai-nadu.

No. 494

(Page No 330)

(A. R. No. 470 of 1909)

Alvar-Tirunagari,
Tiruchendur Taluk, Tirunelveli District Same wall.

Marapanman-Tribh
Sundarapandyadeva: year 11, day 465=1248-49 A.D.

This inscription is a copy of that dealt
with under No. 493 above. Its continuation is, however, missing. It
gives in detail the boundaries of the gift land in Perungulam. Among
the boundaries the places Sivaikundam alias
Irajentirach-chaturvedimangalam, Singankurichchi and Tiruttunai
Villimangalam, figure.

No. 495

(Page No 332)

(A. R. No. 471 of 1909)

Alvar-Tirunagari,
Tiruchendur Taluk, Tirunelveli District Same wall.

Tribh.
Konermaikondan : year 11, day 494=1248-49 A.D.

This inscription is another copy of the
same detailed under No. 493 above. Here, however, a long list of
Signatories is given at the end.

This inscription is also slightly damaged.
It records a gift of tow cows for burning a sandhi lamp in the temple of
Tiruvagattisuramudaiyar of Manamai alias Jananathanallur in Amur-nadu in
Amurk-kottam in Jayangodasolamandalam, by a woman named
Perunkarunaiyatti alias Devarkalabhiyam, a nyayattar of Uttaranmerur.
The cows are stated to have been received by a number of people
including Gavutaman Nangai-bhattan Vadugapillai a devakanmi having right
of worship in the temple, and Ammai Appan Samaiyan-mudali alias (second
name lost), who had agreed to burn the sandhi lamp accordingly.

No. 275

(Page No 174)

(A. R. No. 260 of 1909)

Kunnattur,
Chingleput Taluk, Chingleput District West wall of the
same shrine.

This inscription records a gift of sandhi
lamp to the same deity of the same Jananathanallur occurring in No. 274
above, by a woman stated to be the daughter of a certain Sattuvarappu
Purridangondar of Perumpachcheri. It is stated that the gift was
accepted by the temple Sivabrahmanas Gauvutavan (Gautaman) Ammai Appan
alias Panpayesvara-bhattan and Nangai-bhattan Vaduga-bhattan, who had
agreed to burn lamp accordingly.

This inscription records a gift of a
sandhi lamp to the same temple of the same place occurring in No. 320,
above, by Vikkairama-soladevar alias (name lost), a mudali of the king.
The gift of a (cow or buffalo) and heifer to provide for this by the
donor, was accepted by the Sivabrahmanas belonging to the 44 circles of
the temple who had agreed to burn the lamp.

No. 322

(Page No 204)

(A. R. No. 304 of
1909)

Tirukkachchur,
Chingleput Taluk, Chingleput District Same wall.

Jatavarman alias
Tribh Sundarapandyadeva (I): Year 8=1258 A.D.

This inscription is damaged. It records
the gift of land, etc., in the village of [Ip]puram a devadana of the
temple of Tiruvalakkoyiludaiyana-nayanar of Tirukkachchur but owned by
Manarkudaiyan Devagadevan alias Vayiradarayan for worship and offerings
to the deity Devar-Adisuramudaiya-nayanar of [p]-puram. The gift was
made by the trustees (tanattar) of the temple of
Tiruvalakkoyiludaiyana-nayanar.

This inscription records a gift of a nanda
lamp placed over a brass figure of a women (pavai-vilakku), to the same
temple of Tirukkachchur mentioned in No. 320 above, by a woman
Urranachchi, the daughter of Bhogamattar, a devaradiyar of the temple.
It is stated that including a cow previously given by her, she gave 30
cows and a bull to the temple to provide for the lamp and these were
accepted by two groups of people one group consisting of the manradis
Vadugakon’s Tali and his younger brother Atti and the other group
consisting of Pungakon’s son Maniyan and his younger brother Pungan,
each group undertaking to be responsible for half of the lamp and both
and both groups together agreeing to measure out daily one ulakku of
ghee, by the measure called Irasakesari, till eternity.

The beginning of this inscription seems to
be built in. It records a gift of a sandhi lamp to the temple of the
god Tirukkachchur occurring in several records above, by the merchant
Kaduvetti Nar[pat]tennayirachchilai......venvayiludaiyan, resident of
the street of Bhuvanamulupperunderu in Sri-Madhu-rantaka-chchaturuvedimangalam.
It is stated that he gave 3 cows to provide for this lamp. It is
further stated that 11/2 cows were accepted by the Sivabrahmana
Mudaliyan Tirunatta-bhattan of Bharadvaja-[gotra], who had right of
worship in the temple and the other 11/2 cows by Agattiyan
Tiruvalakkoyiludaiyan alias Tiruvagatti-bhattan, who both had agreed to
burn the lamp perpetually.

This inscription records a gift, made by
the king, of two veli of land in the nanjai land of nanjai land of
Kurumbanmedu in Irandayiravelipparru to the north of [Tirukkachchur?] to
two priests in the temple of the deity Tiruvegamba-mudaiyanayanar at
Kasyapa-(gotra) and Kanchai Anavaratsundara-bhattan Perumankkan
Tiruchchirrambala-bhattan of Bharadvaja-(gotra). The land was given as
Bhattavritti-agaram(Bhattavritti-agaram) from the date of this
inscription. The details such as the extent of each piece of land and
its location in the different parts of the above mentioned
Irandayira-velipparru, are also given. Besides the land, it is stated
that the donees were given each a house-site in the residential area. A
certain Munaiyadaraiyan figures as the signatory.

No. 332

(Page No 212)

(A. R. No. 314 of
1909.)

Tirukkachchur,
Chingleput Taluk, Chingleput District Same wall.

Jatavarman alias
Tribh Sundarapandyadeva I: Year 15=1265-66 A. D.

This inscription is interesting as it
refers to the gifts of lamp made during the reign-periods of three or
four earlier kings.

It states that an extent of 525 kuli of
land and a well which were granted formerly for burning a nanda lamp in
the temple of Tiruvalakkoyiludaiyanayanar of Tirukkachchur by a certain
Kirandai Amarkanayakan Kakkunayakar and his younger brother
Tiruvalakkoyiludaiyan in the 20th year of the reign of
Kulottungasoladeva (see No. 291 above), were sold back to Kirandai
Arumaninayakar, one of the sons of the above-mentioned donor, for a sum
of 12 Palankasu, 1260 Narkasu and 32 panam, by the following
Sivabrahmanas in the manner detailed below. Tillaikkutta-bhattan
received 5 Palankasu in the 38th year of Tribhuvanaviradeva for ¼ lamp,
Srikantha-bhattan and others received 7 Palankasu in the 15th year of
Irasarasadeva for ¼ lamp, Devargal-Devan Sundaran alias
Narpattennayira-bhattan received 1,260 Narkasu in the 27th year of
Irasarasadevur for ¼ lamp, Sundarapandyadevar for [...] lamp,
Tiruchchirrambala-bhattan Bhiman alias Panmakesura-bhattan received 11
panam, for 1 ma araiye-araikkani mumdirigai lamp, Tiruvagatti-bhattan
received 3 panam for ½ lamp, Narpattennayira-bhattan and others received
3 panam for kani-araikkani mundrigai lamp, and Sadasiva-bhattan and
others received 3 panam for kanaraikkani lamp. It is stated that all
these Sivabrahmanas had agreed to burn the nanda lamp accordingly.

It is interesting to note that the record
of the 20th year of Kulottungasoladeva containing the original grant of
land, is stated to be engraved on the northern side of the mandapa which
it described as pa-kal mandapa (i. e. one, built of larger dressed
stone slabs).

This inscription refers to the atrocities
committed by certain Brahmanar of Uttipakkam alias
Adinayaka-chchaturvedimsngslsm in Tamula-nadu in Amur-kottam in
Irandayiravelipparru and to the punishment meted out to them on the
request of the residents of the Agara-brahmadesa, the Velan-urs and the
Nagaras of the same parru. It is stated that the rebellious people could
not be controlled by Vikkiramasoladeva Irungolasaniyan alias Vanarayar,
the previous district authority, and others and that this could be
achieved only by another officer named Pillai Pottappirayar, who after
arresting the criminals and putting them to jail, after punishing them
in the manner employed for lower caste people, ordered the confiscation
of their properties and selling them to temple, etc. Their property in
Uttipakkam was thus sold as tirunamattukkani of the temples of the
place, Tiruvagattisvaramudaiya-nayanar and Srikayilayamudaiya-nayanar
for 200 panam and this money was deposited in the temple at
Tirukkachchiur. The sale was effected by the residents of Agaram, Velan
ur and Nagaras mentioned above, whose representatives figure as
signatories.

No. 335

(Page No 216)

(A. R. No. 317 of
1909.)

Tirukkachchur,
Chingleput Taluk, Chingleput District

Another detached
stone built into the same wall.

Sundarapandyadeva
(-- jat Sund Pandya I ) : No. date=C. 13th century.

This inscription is extremely fragmentary.
It refers to the king as one ‘who was pleased to take every country’.
Other details are lost.

No. 338

(Page No 217)

(A. R. No. 319 of
1909.)

Tirukkachchur,
Chingleput Taluk, Chingleput District

North wall of the
Vighnesvara shrine near the tank, in the same village.

This inscription refers to the king as one
‘who was pleased to take every country’.

It records a gift of 23 veli of land by
three persons, viz., Panchanadivana Nilagangaraiyar (5 veli),
Nallanayanar Nilagangaraiyar (8 veli) and Arunagiri Perumal
Nilagangaraiyat (10 veli) as iraiyili tiruvidaiyattam land in
Brahmakulattur alias Vettaikkaran Kulattur to the temple of the god
Perumal narpattennayiravinnagar Emberuman of Tirukkachchur. A certain
Tirumalaitantan Munaiyadaraiyan figures as the signatory.

No. 439

(Page No 218)

(A. R. No. 418 of
1909.)

Siddhalingamadam,
Tirukkoyilur Taluk, South Arcot District Same wall.

Jatavarman alias Tribh Sundarapandyadeva I
: Year 13, Mina (Pankuni) su. 6, Saturday, Rohini=1263 A. D., March 17.
The tithi and nakshatra ended on the previous day respectively at 97 and
22.

This inscription is damaged in some
places.

It records that a certain Kaikkola (name
lost) of Sirringur, a brahmadesam in Kurukkaik-kurram in Maladu in
Irajarjavalanadu, set up an image of Aludaiyapillaiyar in front of the
shrine of the god Tiruppulippagava-nayanar of the god’s temple in
Sirringur, and that the Sivabrahmanas of the 40 circles belonging to the
temple had agreed to provide for food offerings and other services to
the above-mentioned image as well as for weeding out the grass in the
compound (surralai), from out of the interest on 2,000 kasu which they
had received from a certain Arindavan Pallavaraiyar in the time of
Kopperunjingadevar.

No. 506

(Page No 338)

(A. R. No. 479 of 1909)

Edirkottai,
Sattur Taluk, Ramanathapuram District

A Slab set up in
a place to the east of the same village.

Jatavarman alias
Tribh. Sundarapandyadeva: Year 8+1,

I (?) Chittiral
28=1260, A.D. April 21, (Wednesday).

This inscription is incomplete.

It records a gift of land, by purchase,
half a veli in extent, in Venbaikkudi in Venbaikkudi-nadu, for food and
other offerings to the god Kulanagari Kavali, svaramudaiyar of
Pullinaikkuruchchi, a devadana of the temple of the god
Vikkiramapandisvaramudaiya-nayanar of Venbaikkudi. It is not clear who
the donor was, but probably the king himself donated the land.

No. 718

(Page No 510)

(A. R. No. 667 of
1909)

Tirunedungalam,
Lalgudi Taluk, Tiruchirappalli District

North wall of the
mandapa in front of the same shrine.

Jatavarman alias
Tribh Sundarapandyadeva I: Year 8. Makara

(Tai) su. 10,
Wednesday, Rohini=1258 A. D., January 16.

This inscription contains at the
beginning, a prasasti of the king in Sanskrit, engraved in Grantha
characters. It gives the titles of the king as follows: Somakula-tilaka,
Madhurapuri-Madhava, Keralavamsa-nirmulana, Lankabdhi-lumtana, Dvitiya
Rama, Cholakulasaila-kulisa, Karnatakaraja vidravana,
Kanchipuravaradhisvara, Ganapatiharina-sarddula,
Nellurapura-virachita-virachita-vi[ra*] bhisheka, etc.,

It records a sale of 8 veli of land by a
certain Tirukkattuppalliudaiyan Seliyakangan of Kiliyur in Kiliyur-nadu,
in Pandikulapati-valanadu to the temple of the god
Tirunedungala-udaiya-nayanar in Vadakavi-nadu in the same nadu. It is
stated that the land belonged to the Periyamudali alias Kangayar, the
younger brother of the above-mentioned Seliyakangan and that the former
had left the place not being able to pay the dues. It is also stated
that price for the land was 450 Anradu Narkasu. This document was called
Vilaipramana-isaivutittu.

This inscription is damaged. It records
that a certain Pallamudaiyan Iramapiran Sarvatirttamudaiyar of Osama
Vanavanmadevinallur of Mutturruk-kurram in Pandi-mandalam, made f
Vadakavi-nadu in Pandikulapati-valanadu, and to provide for this he gave
a sum of 8,000 Anradu Narkasu to the temple in lieu of which, the temple
authorities sold a land, 7-1/2 ma in the extent, from the tax-free
temple tirumattukkai and in Mankanam alias Nittamanavalanallur in
Vadakavi-nadu in Pandikulapati-valanadu. It is stated that the temple
authorities had agreed to pay the taxes in respect of the land
themselves. A number of signatories also figure.

No. 722 (Page No. 515)

(A. R. No. 671 of
1909)

Tirunedungalam,
Lalgudi Taluk, Tiruchirappalli District Same wall.

Tribhuvanachakravartin (Jata Sundarapandya I ): Year 10,

Minam (Panguni)
su. 9, Wednesday, Hastam=Irregular.

This inscription is damaged in some
places.

It records that the land in Mankanam
purchased from the residents of the place by the ur of Kiliyur of
Vadakavi-nadu, was sold as Tirunamattukkani by the same ur to the temple
of Tirunedungalam-udaiyar of Vadakavi-nadu in Pandikulapati-valanadu.
The price of the land is stated as 12,000 kasu or 400 panam. It is
stated that the land belonged to a certain Vilupparaiyar of Karuppur, to
Kilanallur-kilavar Milichchurangum-perumal and to a certain kaniyalar.
It is stated that the land was made tax-free. In the description of the
boundaries Puduvayal, Oppilamulainachchiyar’s Kudikkadu, Nambur and
Kadaiyakkudi figure. A number of residents of Kiliyur figure as
signatories.

It contains the prasasti of the king
beginning with Samasta-jagadadhra etc., in Sanskrit, engraved in Grantha
characters.

It records a gift by the nattavars, the
kaniudaiyars and the kaniudaiyaraiyars of Misengali-nadu in Tenkarai
Jayasingakulakala-valanadu in the same valanadu. It is stated that the
above-mentioned people received from three persons of Tiyaneri, the
village Tiyaneri having an extent of 12 veli and with all its
residential areas, tank, and gardens and gave it together with its
punjai land, shares, etc., to provide for the festival instituted in the
name of the ruler ending with the day of his natal asterism, in the
temple. It is further stated that the gift was a tirunamattukkani, and
that the donors themselves would pay the various taxes in respect of the
village and that the income from the levies like makanmai, sirrayam
etc., should be paid to the temple.

No. 731 (Page No. 526)

(A. R. No. 680 of 1909)

Tirunedungalam, Lalgudi
Taluk, Tiruchirappalli District West wall of the same
shrine.

Jatavarman alias
Tribh Sundarapandya I: Year 3, Rishabha (Vaikasi)

Su. 11, Monday,
Pusam-Irregular: 13th century.

This inscription
is damaged in some places.

It records a gift of a nanda lamp to be
burnt in the temple of Tirunedungalam-udaiyar of Vadakavi-nadu in
Pandikulapati-valandu by a certain Arayan Sivandakalalagiyar of Puduvur
in Arvalak-kurram in Irasendirasola-valanadu. It is stated that the
donor paid a sum of 4,000 Anradu Narkasu, the equivalent of 20-1/4 panam
to the temple which sold to him for this purpose, some land from out of
its tax-free tirunamattukkani village of Mankanam alias
Nittamanavalanallur and granted this sale deed (vilaippiramana-isaivut-tittu.
It is stated that the taxes on the land would be paid by the temple.

The signatories were the different temple
authorities like the temple accountant Perumbuiliyurudaiyan, the
madavattiyam Idarkalaivan alias Arbudakalandan, the simahesvarakankani
Chandesuranambi, another post (name lost) Araiyadevan, and yet another
kankani (detail lost) Tirujnana-sambandan. Besides, a few other
individuals also figure as signatories.

No. 592 (Page No.
411)

(A. R. No. 561 of
1909)

Chintapalle,
Sattenapalle Taluk, Guntur District

On a slab forming
the wall of a small shrine in the courtyard of the same temple.

This inscription is built in at the left
side and hence several passages are not available in full. So, the
purport of the record is difficult to make out completely.

It records an isaivu-muri (agreement)
between Siraman Manikkam Mudumala-battar, a Sivabrahmana of the temple
of Tirumuttisuram-udaiya-nayanar of Kaduvankudi in Mudusorkudi-nadu in
Uratturk-kurram in [Ka]-nadu alias Kadaladaiyadilangaikondasola-valanadu,
and Andan Tiruvedamalagiyar, a nambi having the right of worship and
acharya in the temple. The agreement seems to centre round the kani
given as sridana to Andan Tirurvedamalagiyar when he married the
daughter of a certain Siriman [. . .]ttar, both of the same place.

Kodumbalurudaiyan Devan Nittaninraduvar
also figures as the signatory.

On the north wall
of the kicthen in the Bhaktavatsalesvara temple, left of entrance.

Jatavarman
Virapandyadeva: Year 13.

This record, in characters of about the
13th century A. D., given details of date, viz., Tula, su. 6, Friday,
Mulam which may correspond to 1265 A. D., October 16, f.d.t. 20; the
nakshatra ended on the previous day at. 67.

It records the gift of the village
Karumarampakkameri, made tax-free by the people (nattar) of
kalattur-parru to the temple of Tirukkalukkunra. Mudaiya-nayanar at
Tirukkalukkunram in kalattur-kottam in Jayangondasola mandalam for
offerings during the Kalingarayan-sandhi established by Kappalurudaiyan
karumanikka . . . . alias Kalingarayar of kappalur alias
Ulagalandasolanallur in Mutturru-kkurram in Pandi-mandalam and for the
festival held in Aippasi on the day of Puradam, the natal star of
Kalingarayar.

No. 504

(Page No 337)

(A. R. No. 477 B of
1909)

Edirkottai,
Sattur Taluk, Ramanathapuram District Same wall

Jatavarman VI .
. . . . . . . . Year lost.

This is fragment in Tamil script c. 12th
century. It seems to record a grant of one and a quarter veli of land
and a garden along with income from taxes by the nagarattar of [Udaiya]
mattandapuram. (See No. 500 above).

No. 508

(Page No 340)

(A. R. No. 481 of
1909.)

Maraneri, Sattur
Taluk, Ramanathapuram District

North wall of the
same temple.

Virapandyadeva
(=Jata Virapandya I): Year 11+Adi=1264-65 A. D.

This inscription
is damaged in some places.

It records a gift of land, made probably
by the king in Maramangalam alias Sundarapandyanallur in
Karunilakkudi-nadu, to the temple of the god
Sundarapandisvaramudaiya-nayanar of the place. It is stated that an
extent of 3ma of land measured by the 12-foot rod was gifted for the
god’s Tirumukkalvattagai, flower-garden, madam, and tirumadaivilagam and
another 30 ma of land, 10 ma in one place and 20 ma in another place,
was meant for food and other offerings to the same god, It is also
stated that the gift was a tax-free karanmai devadana.

No. 521

(Page No 250)

(A. R. No. 494 of
1909)

Solapuram,
Sivaganga Taluk, Ramanathapuram District Same wall.

Jatavarman alias Tribh
Virapandyadeva I : Year 6=1258-59 A.D.

This inscription
is damaged in some places.

It records that the sribhandarattar
(authorities) of the temple of the god Uttamasolavinnagar-emperuman
received (Uttamasolapuram) of money from a certain, Tiruvelundur
Narayanan Narayana-bhattan of Uttamasolach-chaturvvedimangalam and gave
the some to the stone mason for providing the pavement caused to be done
in the Seranaryanan-mandapa, by a certain Udaiyar Kalappalar.